I'm John Batchel, and I welcome my good colleague for many years Peter Berkowitz at the Hoover Institution,

writing his column for Rookler Politics, about a large body of political thinking called the New

Right, simply that, the New Right, but it subdivides quickly. Peter's essay outlines

some of the voices that apply to the fragmenting,

the balkanizing, the breakup of the new right into factions. Note this does not use the word

Democratic. Note, this does not use the word Republican. It's right. R-I-G-H-T.

Peter, a very good evening to you.

You've written about this over time, and I'm not been able to understand where it's going.

But apparently where it's going right now is a breakup.

What is the new – what can we just say are the fragments so far of the new right?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Yes, fragments, although the fragments, maybe factions, have been coming together for almost a decade. And they've been coming together, converging in their support for Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement.

But the factions of the new right are very, each has a distinctive focus and emphasis.

I'm going to rattle them off for the moment and happy to elaborate.

There are the national conservatives who believe that the country has been

hollowed out and we do and we need to return to America's own distinctive national traditions.

They're the common good conservatives who believe that we must attend less to individual desires and aspirations,

and government should focus more on the common good for all of America.

There are the post-liberals who quite explicitly want to overcome the classical liberalism

on which the country was founded.

And these days there's also something called the hard right, which goes beyond anything

you might call as you might call conservative, and instead wants to return to the spirit of

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